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ASIAMS
2008
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Optimization of a Kraft Pulping System: Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Differential Evolution
Expectation of profit is the economic driving force motivating business activity in a free-enterprise economy. An increase in this profit for a given organization can be accomplis...
Millie Pant, Radha Thangaraj, Ajith Abraham
EMO
2003
Springer
162views Optimization» more  EMO 2003»
15 years 4 months ago
PISA: A Platform and Programming Language Independent Interface for Search Algorithms
This paper introduces an interface specification (PISA) that allows to separate the problem-specific part of an optimizer from the problem-independent part. We propose a view of ...
Stefan Bleuler, Marco Laumanns, Lothar Thiele, Eck...
WDAG
2004
Springer
86views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2004»
15 years 4 months ago
Message-Optimal and Latency-Optimal Termination Detection Algorithms for Arbitrary Topologies
An important problem in distributed systems is to detect termination of a distributed computation. A computation is said to have terminated when all processes have become passive ...
Neeraj Mittal, Subbarayan Venkatesan, Sathya Peri
SODA
1992
ACM
252views Algorithms» more  SODA 1992»
15 years 10 days ago
A General Approximation Technique for Constrained Forest Problems
We present a general approximation technique for a large class of graph problems. Our technique mostly applies to problems of covering, at minimum cost, the vertices of a graph wit...
Michel X. Goemans, David P. Williamson
GECCO
2008
Springer
238views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 days ago
Using multiple offspring sampling to guide genetic algorithms to solve permutation problems
The correct choice of an evolutionary algorithm, a genetic representation for the problem being solved (as well as their associated variation operators) and the appropriate values...
Antonio LaTorre, José Manuel Peña, V...